{"id":826,"date":"2015-01-28T13:02:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T21:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/?p=826"},"modified":"2015-01-28T13:02:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T21:02:10","slug":"a-portrait-of-a-mother-and-sons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/2015\/01\/28\/a-portrait-of-a-mother-and-sons\/","title":{"rendered":"A Portrait of a Mother and Sons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/2015\/01\/28\/a-portrait-of-a-mother-and-sons\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><figure id=\"attachment_827\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-827\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/P1000445_14660000-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"Mother and Sons (2015) by Ryan Williams\" width=\"474\" height=\"355\" class=\"size-large wp-image-827\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/P1000445_14660000-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/P1000445_14660000-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-827\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mother and Sons (2015) by Ryan Williams<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nSo the first painting of the year is done. A commissioned piece of a mother and her two sons. As the I mention in the video, this was difficult as I only had a single photograph to work with. Seeing as how this was a commission and would be a gift for someone, I really had to focus on capturing the joy that is a family bond. How do you achieve this feeling in a painting? What is it about a smile that tells a story? Faces are just like books: they all tell a story.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ep. 22: Painting a Family Portrait - Oil Painting by Artist Ryan G. Williams\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YNpM-Rp8lPI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this video I discuss the challenges that came with working on this triple portrait. I made some mistakes, learned from them, and now take that new knowledge with me as I start yet another portrait. This one is a bit simpler in that there will be just two faces. One human and one, well, not. What is this animal? Stayed tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the first painting of the year is done. A commissioned piece of a mother and her two sons. As the I mention in the video, this was difficult as I only had a single photograph to work with. Seeing as how this was a commission and would be a gift for someone, I really &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/2015\/01\/28\/a-portrait-of-a-mother-and-sons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Portrait of a Mother and Sons<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paintings","category-video-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}